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530 Martin Amis RIP (with Mike Palindrome)
The History of Literature
The Importance of Explanation in Writing
When I was in my twenties and thirties, that was the kind of fiction I wanted to read. Like show me something I can't do. Right. So Monroe is a good example because she doesn't write at all like Amos, but she can go places that he could gone with his style. And apparently one of his friends was a poet who called it Martianism. He learned that from the Bakov. It's basically the idea that your prose is explaining things on the earth as if to a space alien,. You know, as if no one has ever seen this before."
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